A little running update - A great book to check out - And some good Seinfeld Trivia at the End - What more could you want from this blog?

So, just a couple of random thoughts....

First, had a good almost last run before the Yonkers Half Marathon with our crew yesterday. Excuse the self-helpiness of this but, we did a little bit of a positive visualization thing....We ran the final three miles of the route - down Nepperhan toward City Hall, a left onto Broadway, Valentine and then back down towards the Library. The only difference is that we headed back up a nice hill towards Neppherhan as opposed to heading back to the library. Everyone kept up a nice pace and felt good at the end. What more can you ask. One more light one on Friday and we're good to go.

I've actually kept up some nice mileage this week - about 40 up through today which includes a 12 miler, 10 and an 8 miler. Not sure how smart that is but I'm just kind of going with it. Definitely eased it today with just four and will do about the same tomorrow. In general, feeling very good these days --

On a very different note, just wanted to share a book idea. If you're ever looking for ways to change your thinking or do some really powerful brainstorming, take a look at Thinkertoys by Michael Michalko; here's the Amazon Link:
http://www.amazon.com/Thinkertoys-Handbook-Creative-Thinking-Techniques-Edition/dp/1580087736

I've been trying to re-think some of what we do with Teens Run Yonkers and this book has some really fantastic and creative exercises for helping you reframe your thinking. Whether you're in a business, nonprofit or really any setting, these are some excellent ideas.

And since I haven't done any Seinfeld Trivia for ages - and I'm talking about great books, does anyone remember the episode - still one of the earlier ones- where Elaine is editing a book by an important writer named Rava? What publisher was Elaine working for at the time? What was Rava's boyfriends REAL name and what did he spend his time doing? Finally, there is a statue involved in this episode that looks just like one that George destroyed as a kid - he was pretending it was a microphone and pretending to sing what song?? Finally, when he broke it, his parents looked at him like he had smashed something pretty important. WHat was it??